To be great you need to have 99 percent talent, 99 percent discipline and 99 percent work.
How hard it is to hate those you would like to love.
Voltaire
Humility makes us invulnerable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Silence is golden and is often the answer.
Folk wisdom
When we are young, we very easily dismiss spirit in the beauty we love and common sense in the talents we admire.
Charles Saint-Beuve
The “know thyself” of Greek philosophy is great nonsense. We will never know ourselves or others. But it's not about that. Creating the world is less...
Anatole France